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No. 703,286. Patented lune 24, |902.

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PROCESS Fv MAKING WEAVERS DESIGNS.

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PROCESS 0F MAKING WEAVEBS DESIGNS. (Application med Jan. s, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY MACKINTOSH, OF SHIPLEY, ENGLAND.

-PROCESS OF MAKING WEAVERS DESIGNS.

SPECIFICATION forming' part Of Letters Patent N0. 7 03,286, dated June 24, 1902.

Application led January 2, 1901.

To coll whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY MACKINTosH, agent, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Shipley,in the county of York, England, (Whose post-office address is Moorehead House, Shipley, aforesaid,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements vin Processes of Making I/Veavers Designs, of which the following is a specication, provisional protection having been obtained in England under No. 4,796, dated March 13, 1900, and No. 14,785, dated August 17, 1900.

This invention has for its object a method of forming diagrams.

I-litherto a sheet ruled with a series of crosslines an equal distance apart both ways, commonly called point-paper, has been used, and the entire pattern and ground has been carefully painted into this by hand. To facilitate this, I form a transparent stencil of any waterproof sheet--such as oiled paper, preferably long-fibered Japanese rice-straw paper soaked in varnish and rolled under heavy pressure. This I pass into a machine like atype-writer, geared so that the feed in both directions shall be absolutely the same as the distance between thelines of the pointpaper subsequently used or a multiple of such distance, so that supposing the type were a simple dot these dots would be spaced exactly evenly apart in longitudinal and transverse lines. Instead of, however, having typeI have punches; but the motion of the machinecan be precisely the saine as that of the typewriter, the gearing being arranged so that all the punch-holesin afully-punched sheet shall be equidistant from, those nearest them in the transverse and longitudinal lines. It is obvious, however, that other forms of punching-machines can be used, providing the table forming the paper-carrier or the punching-device carrier is provided with an equal longitudinal and transverse feed exactly corresponding to the squares on the point-paper. I may have one or more round punches; but in some instances I may use punches of diiferent shape, one, say, square, another round, a third a star or triangle, by which, if desired, I can form a variegated ground, represented in monochrome by different symbols, one symbol for each color. In practice, however, as a rule I prefer to have but a Serial No. 41,850. (No specimens.)

single variety of punch making a round or square hole and use several stencils with different colors, one for each weave of the ground employed. I then throw the representation of any pattern I require by means of a specially-arranged optical lantern adapted to project the design onto a sheet of pointpaper-that is to say, paper ruled with lines equidistant apart and at right angles to each other'and exactly the same distance apart as the feed of the type-writer-and the outline of the image thus projected is drawn in by hand. I then place the stencil over the ruled paper, with the punched centers exactly registering with the centers of the small squares ofthe paper, and with a brush rub in the color through the holes on the ground. In this way a number of different weaves in different colors can be applied successively to the same design, so that the different grounds in the whole design are correctly indicated.

In order that my invention may be better understood, I append the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l shows a portion of a templet with one form of punch-hole. Fig. 2 showsa portion of templet with three forms of punchhole. Fig. 3 shows a portion of a ruled sheet. Fig. 4 shows a portion of a completed pattern. Fig. 5 shows a portion of the templet or stencil used for producing the ground shown in Fig. 4.

In the drawings, Fig. 3 shows a portion of a sheet of ruled paper. This ruled paper has the lines ruled exactly a unit distance apart, the same distance u nit as that of the feed of the punching-machinealreadydescrbed. Every tenth or eighth line, as the case may be, is made rather thicker than the others for the more easy counting. This sheet is placed on asuitable frame and the reflection of the pattern thrown thereon by means of a mirror. The size and position of the pattern on the sheet having been adjusted, the pattern is now drawn or painted 0E by hand. The ground is now stenciled in with its respective colors by means of one or a series of stencilplates, as before described.

I declare that what I claim is l. The process of making weavers designs, consisting in projecting a design by a camera on a paper ruled in squares, then outlining ICO ycolors by the means of a series of separate stencils, having diierently arranged holes therein, Which holes are arranged in the centers of the squares on the ruled surface, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof l have hereunto signed my name, this 20th day of December, 1900, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HARRY MACKINTOSH.

Witnesses:

CECIL A. S. BAXTER, DAVID NoWELL. 

